He watched Buffy collect the dishes, nodding unnecessarily in confirmation of when they would meet. His mind was more fixated on her references to things that had come to pass and were now being repeated. They had barely scratched the surface of that topic, focusing more on the day-to-day happenings and whatever they could find on the possibilities of opening a way to another world.

What decisions would she change, knowing what she knew now? Who would she pull into her close circle, and who would she push away? The years spent in Luceti would almost certainly change dynamics, especially if she had only spent a limited time with these other Slayers in the past. And now she had a distraction--something new that she felt responsibility towards that would pull her away from other things she otherwise would have focused on.

"It would not be wrong," he finally said. "But I doubt a few words will help when you have such a tremendous task ahead of you."